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Using third-party blog editors to create entries for your blog
You can set up your blog so that you can use a third-party editing tool to create blog entries.
To use this feature, already have a blog with at least one entry. You must also have access to a third-party blog editing tool, such as w.bloggar or ScribeFire. The steps describe how to set up your blog to use ScribeFire, a plug-in for Mozilla Firefox, but the steps are similar for setting up other blog editors.
Follow these steps to specify an alternate editor for creating blog entries. These steps assume you have already installed the ScribeFire plug-in and that you are using Mozilla Firefox as your browser.
- Click My Blog to work with your blog.
- Click Settings to edit the settings for your blog.
- Enable the Enable Blogger and MetaWeblog API for your blog setting.
- Click Update blog settings.
- Click on the orange icon in the right hand corner of the status bar in Firefox to launch ScribeFire.
- Launch the account wizard.
- Manually configure the settings.
- Enter the URL for your blog.
- Select MetaWeblog API in the system type field and enter the URL for your Blogs server in the Server API URL field. The URL should look like this: http://<hostname>/blogs/services/xmlrpc.
- Enter your Lotus Connections user name and password.
Both user name and password are case sensitive. If the login is successful, you see a list of your blogs.
- Select the blog or blogs you want to update with ScribeFire.
- Use ScribeFire to create a blog entry and post it to your blog.
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